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**Valdoyes** · 07-22-2012, 07:04 PM

Why does loft dictate the iron?
Shouldnt ball flight and launch dictate the iron?
Does it also bother you that drivers are not all the same lofts? Should I say that your driver is not a driver because its 8* and mine is 12*

Since not everybody hits the same distances, ball flight would clearly be how they determine lofts, and the reason that the same companies that put out lower lofts in some irons, also have fairly traditional lofts in others.

I think it should primarily be yardage gaps that determine the numbers on the clubs. I know that is relative to each player, but when they had to start including extra wedges between the pitching wedge and sand wedge, it was time to admit that the pitching wedge was actually a 9 iron.

07-22-2012, 07:04 PM	#14
Valdoyes Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	Why does loft dictate the iron? Shouldnt ball flight and launch dictate the iron? Does it also bother you that drivers are not all the same lofts? Should I say that your driver is not a driver because its 8* and mine is 12* Since not everybody hits the same distances, ball flight would clearly be how they determine lofts, and the reason that the same companies that put out lower lofts in some irons, also have fairly traditional lofts in others. I think it should primarily be yardage gaps that determine the numbers on the clubs. I know that is relative to each player, but when they had to start including extra wedges between the pitching wedge and sand wedge, it was time to admit that the pitching wedge was actually a 9 iron.
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